Registration applications are coming in for the upcoming conference of the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius (June 4-June 8). This conference, which will bring together world-class theologians and churchmen from Europe and North America, will be investigating the question of how Orthodox, Anglican, and Roman Catholic churches understand primacy. This question both unites and divides, both within and between these communions.

Aside from the questions it seeks to investigate, this conference is a bid to re-establish a presence of the Fellowship of Sts Albans and Sergius here in North America. Perhaps apart from the international Anglican-Orthodox dialogues, this is shaping up to be the Anglican-Orthodox event of the decade.

Keynote speakers include:

• Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia,
• Metropolitan Philip (Saliba) of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
• Bishop Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Vienna and Austria, Russian Orthodox Church
• Bishop Keith Ackerman, Diocese of Quincy 
• The Very Rev. Patrick Henry Reardon, Senior Editor, Touchstone Magazine
• The Very Rev. John H. Erickson, Professor, St Vladimir’s Seminary
• The Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, Editor and Chief, First Things Magazine
• Igumen Jonah Paffhausen, Abbott of Monastery of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco
• The Rev. Canon Warren Tanghe, SSC, Chaplain to All Saints' Sisters of the Poor
• The Rev. Canon J. Robert Wright, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, General Theological Seminary

In addition, a delegation from the UK will feature Fr Stephen Platt, the Fellowship's general secretary, together with several noted theologians who play a role in the Fellowship:

• Fr Andrew Louth
• Dn Matthew Steenberg
• Archimandrite Kyril (Jenner)
• Archimandrite Ephrem Lash
• Canon Jonathan Goodall (Chaplain and Secretary for Ecumenical Affairs to the Archbishop Of Canterbury)
• Alexis Torrance

The conference will explore Rome, Constantinople, and Canterbury and how each plays a role of primacy over the local Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican churches around the world. Questions such as “how is primacy understood among and between the churches themselves” and “what role does communion with a ‘mother church’ play in establishing the identity of a local church” will be discussed. In addition, there will be workshops, plenary sessions, and worship services.

Further information is available on the event web site for the conference. Online registration is available. If you prefer to register by mail, a printable form is available in PDF format.

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